QWS List Lizzie

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

Hello.
I'm Lizzie, and I'm a blind music student. My main instrument is piano
and keyboard, and I'm also a composer. I've decided to join this
mailing list as I am just getting the hang of QWS and have many
questions about it, of course. I am just introducing myself for now
and will get to my specific questions very soon.
Thanks,
Lizzie
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Re: QWS List Lizzie

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

I have the RTF manual, and it seemed a little vague to me. It tells
you the basic features but doesn't go through the many ways they can
be used. For example, there's no clear section on some of the things I
was specifically looking for. Are the tutorials more detailed on
specific processes than the RTF manual?
Lizzie

On 4/10/17, Nicole Massey <ny...@gypsyheir.com> wrote:
> Welcome. Have you checked out the tutorials yet? They answer a lot of
> questions.
>
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> Subject: QWS List Lizzie
>
> Hello.
> I'm Lizzie, and I'm a blind music student. My main instrument is piano and
> keyboard, and I'm also a composer. I've decided to join this mailing list as
> I am just getting the hang of QWS and have many questions about it, of
> course. I am just introducing myself for now and will get to my specific
> questions very soon.
> Thanks,
> Lizzie
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Re: QWS List Lizzie

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

I will look into those, then. If I don't find my specific answers I'll
of course ask all of you.

On 4/11/17, Nicole Massey <ny...@gypsyheir.com> wrote:
> Yep -- they're more in depth discussions on specific things.
> One of the things that makes QWS different from most sequencers is that it
> deals with MIDI in its native format, so what it can do is reflected in the
> wide array of what MIDI can do. It's sort of amazing that a protocol
> invented 35 years ago still has so much functionality. (with a few
> additions, of course)
>
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> From: mai...@andrelouis.com [mailto:mai...@andrelouis.com] On Behalf Of
> Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 9:25 PM
> To: QWS list <qws@AndreLouis.COM>
> Subject: Re: QWS List Lizzie
>
> I have the RTF manual, and it seemed a little vague to me. It tells you the
> basic features but doesn't go through the many ways they can be used. For
> example, there's no clear section on some of the things I was specifically
> looking for. Are the tutorials more detailed on specific processes than the
> RTF manual?
> Lizzie
>
> On 4/10/17, Nicole Massey <ny...@gypsyheir.com> wrote:
>> Welcome. Have you checked out the tutorials yet? They answer a lot of
>> questions.
>>
>> -----Original Message-
>> From: mai...@andrelouis.com [mailto:mai...@andrelouis.com] On Behalf
>> Of Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn
>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 8:25 PM
>> To: QWS list <qws@AndreLouis.COM>
>> Subject: QWS List Lizzie
>>
>> Hello.
>> I'm Lizzie, and I'm a blind music student. My main instrument is piano
>> and keyboard, and I'm also a composer. I've decided to join this
>> mailing list as I am just getting the hang of QWS and have many
>> questions about it, of course. I am just introducing myself for now
>> and will get to my specific questions very soon.
>> Thanks,
>> Lizzie
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Re: QWS List orchestrating on the computer

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

Hi.
There's the on-screen keyboard feature, which uses the QWERTY keys for
the different pitches. The only problem is that there's a delay
between when you hit the key and when it sounds, and the keys are laid
out differently so it will take some getting used to.
Thanks,
Lizzie


On 4/6/18, Tyler Zahnke  wrote:
> Hello! I was wondering if it was possible to use QWS without a MIDI
> keyboard, selecting the instruments and playing the notes all from the
> computer. If any of you know how to do this, I was wondering how.
> Tyler
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QWS List Making external keyboard data readable on any synthesizer?

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

Hello.
I am creating a project for Music Theory where we're composing for
three instrumentalists, and a printed score is required. I thought I'd
record the MIDI data first in QWS and then open it in a notation
software to convert it. My question is: I will be playing the music on
my keyboard, but after I've recorded all the tracks, how do I convert
the properties so they can be read and played by any device, not just
my own keyboard with its own unique sounds (these will be conventional
instrument sounds but every keyboard is slightly different). I'd like
to know how to do this so I can make it readable on any synth and MIDI
related software. Please tell me what I should do about this.
Thanks,
Lizzie
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Re: QWS List orchestrating on the computer

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

You can actually get rid of the delay in the audio software, I think
it's latency or something like that. I prefer using audio a little bit
more than MIDI myself, but I know I should be proficient in it if I
want to notate something.
Lizzie


On 4/6/18, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, maybe QWS isn't my program of choice. I do not want the delay; I
> have that delay when I'm using audio editing software; in all honesty,
> I prefer using audio instead of MIDI data, but in audio software, I
> have the delay. So if I'm going to have the delay both ways, I better
> find a new way or a new program; I wish that delay would go away.
>
> On 4/6/18, Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn <lizzie.kazmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>> There's the on-screen keyboard feature, which uses the QWERTY keys for
>> the different pitches. The only problem is that there's a delay
>> between when you hit the key and when it sounds, and the keys are laid
>> out differently so it will take some getting used to.
>> Thanks,
>> Lizzie
>>
>>
>> On 4/6/18, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello! I was wondering if it was possible to use QWS without a MIDI
>>> keyboard, selecting the instruments and playing the notes all from the
>>> computer. If any of you know how to do this, I was wondering how.
>>> Tyler
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Re: QWS List Making external keyboard data readable on any synthesizer?

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

Hi.
Thank you for all of this advice. I'm usually very straightforward
with this stuff, and if the instrumentalists need to change something
themselves they can indicate that. What I meant was, when you record
with an external keyboard your ports are whatever, but how do you make
it so it doesn't always have to play on that keyboard, for example, so
it can play on the Microsoft synth or the synths in notation programs?
After you save your music do you have to change the track properties
so they can be played anywhere?
Thanks,
Lizzie
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Re: QWS List Making external keyboard data readable on any synthesizer?

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

That's really interesting, but what if, for example, you want one part
of your song with strings bowed and another part pizzicato, those are
two different sounds on the keyboard. Also, do you know of any
notation software that might be as blind accessible and
straightforward as QWS is with MIDI? I have MuseScore right now but
haven't actually created anything with it. I know this question isn't
about QWS itself, but I'm just wondering.
Lizzie
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Re: QWS List orchestrating on the computer

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

Does that one have any delay? If not, could you use an external
keyboard and still keep all the sound inside the computer? I found
that worked with the Microsoft synth, I was able to get two tracks,
but the delay bugs me.
Lizzie


On 4/7/18, Nicole Massey <ny...@gypsyheir.com> wrote:
> Yes, it uses the old slow MS Wavetable Synth. Change that as soon as you can
> -- I use BassMIDI with about 15 Sound Font banks for my default sounds, but
> other options exist.
>
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> Tyler Zahnke
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2018 5:16 PM
> To: QWS list <qws@AndreLouis.COM>
> Subject: Re: QWS List orchestrating on the computer
>
> What does QWS use by default? Probably the Microsoft synth, I don't know.
>
> On 4/7/18, Nicole Massey <ny...@gypsyheir.com> wrote:
>> Well, what are you using for your sound source? The default Microsoft
>> Wavetable Synth has a latency problem, but other options don't.
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: mai...@andrelouis.com [mailto:mai...@andrelouis.com] On Behalf
>> Of Tyler Zahnke
>> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 9:42 PM
>> To: QWS list <qws@AndreLouis.COM>
>> Subject: Re: QWS List orchestrating on the computer
>>
>> Yeah, maybe QWS isn't my program of choice. I do not want the delay; I
>> have that delay when I'm using audio editing software; in all honesty,
>> I prefer using audio instead of MIDI data, but in audio software, I have
>> the delay.
>> So if I'm going to have the delay both ways, I better find a new way
>> or a new program; I wish that delay would go away.
>>
>> On 4/6/18, Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn <lizzie.kazmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> There's the on-screen keyboard feature, which uses the QWERTY keys
>>> for the different pitches. The only problem is that there's a delay
>>> between when you hit the key and when it sounds, and the keys are
>>> laid out differently so it will take some getting used to.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lizzie
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/6/18, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello! I was wondering if it was possible to use QWS without a MIDI
>>>> keyboard, selecting the instruments and playing the notes all from
>>>> the computer. If any of you know how to do this, I was wondering how.
>>>> Tyler
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Re: QWS List Making external keyboard data readable on any synthesizer?

[Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn]

Do you use them together, that is, making the MIDI first and then
converting it, or do you use them for completely separate projects?

On 4/7/18, Richard Wells <richwels1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lizzie: I use QWS to create MIDI and MuseScore to make musical staves
> for my Trumpet and Violin students all the time.
>
>
> On 4/7/2018 4:53 PM, Lizzie Kazmierski Dunn wrote:
>> That's really interesting, but what if, for example, you want one part
>> of your song with strings bowed and another part pizzicato, those are
>> two different sounds on the keyboard. Also, do you know of any
>> notation software that might be as blind accessible and
>> straightforward as QWS is with MIDI? I have MuseScore right now but
>> haven't actually created anything with it. I know this question isn't
>> about QWS itself, but I'm just wondering.
>> Lizzie
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